4. Information to Protection Officer and exclusion of liability of informant

5. Duties of police officers, service providers and Magistrate

6. Duties of shelter homes…………………………………………

7. Duties of medical facilities ………………….,…………………..

8. Appointment of Protection Officers………………………….

9. Duties and functions of Protection Officers………………

10. Service providers ………………………………………………………..

11. Duties of Government………………………………………………..

Chapter IV
PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING ORDERS OF RELIEFS

12. Application to Magistrate …………………….,.„„……………….

13. Service of notice……………………………………………………..

14. Counselling…………………………………………………………………

15. Assistance of welfare expert……………………………………..

16. Proceedings to be held in camera …………………………….

17. Right to reside in a shared household ………………………

18. Protection orders ……………………………………………………….

19. Residence orders …………………………………………………….._

20. Monetary reliefs …………………………………………………………

21. Custody orders ………………………………………………………….

22. Compensation orders ………………………………………………….

23. Power to grant interim and ex parts orders…………….

24. Court to give copies of order free of cost………………

25. Duration and alteration of orders ……………………………..

26. Relief in other suits and legal proceedings……………….

27. Jurisdiction ………………………………………………………………..

28. Procedure………………………………………………………………….

29. Appeal ………………………………………………………………………

Chapter V MISCELLANEOUS

30. Protection Officers and members of service

providers to be public servants ……………………………….

Contents

31. Penalty for breach of protection order by respondent…………. 89

32. Cognizance and proof…………………………………………………………… 92

33. Penalty for not discharging duty by Protection Officer ………..96

34. Cognizance of offence committed by Protection Officer……… 99

35. Protection of action taken in good faith…………………………….. 102

36. Act not in derogation of any other law

37. Power of Central Government to make rules…………………….. 105

THE VACUUM FILLED BY THE PROTECTION OF

WOMEN FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT, 2005…………… 110

• NOTES ON CLAUSES ……………………………………………………………. 113

. PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

UNDER PROTECTION OF WOMEN……………………………………… 121

1. If Religion or Region differs …………:………………………………….. 121

2. Past domestic events ………………………………………………………….. 122

3. Cause of action ………………………………………………………………….. 122

4. Place where cause of action takes place …………………………… 123

5. Consent of the aggrieved women ………………………………………. 125

6. Service of notice………………………………………………………………… 126

7. Procedure before the Magistrate…………………………………………. 127

8. Incidents of Domestic Violence ………………………………………….. 128

9. If the domestic event amounts to an offence under

Criminal Law ……………………………………………………………………… 129

10. Who may file the complaint………………………………………………. 130

11. Persons against whom complaint can be made………………….. 131

12. Where Acts of Domestic Violence come within the scope

of offences punishable under criminal laws — Procedure …. 132

13. Persons liable to be punished under this Act…………………….. 134

14. Permission for Prosecution …………………………………………………. 135

15. New Jurisprudence under Protection of Woman

from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 and Jurisdiction of

Lok Adalat………………………………………………………………………….. 135

viii Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005

RELEVANT PROVISIONS FROM OTHER ACTS

1. Indian Evidence Act, 1872

112. Birth during marriage, conclusive proof

of legitimacy”……………………………………………………

2. Hindu Marriage Act, 1955

24. Maintenance pendente life and expenses of proceedings ……………………………………….

3. Hindu Adoptions & Maintenance Act, 1956

~ Chapter-Ill Maintenance

18. Maintenance of wife …………………………………………._

19. Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law………………

20. Maintenance of children and aged parents …………_

21. Dependants defined ……………………………………………._

22. Maintenance of dependants……………………………………

23. Amount of maintenance ………………………………………_

24. Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu ………..

25. Amount of maintenance may be altered

on change of circumstances…………………………………

26. Debts to have priority…………………………………………

27. Maintenance when to be a charge………………………

28. Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance…………………………………………………….

4. The Special Marriage Act, 1954

37. Permanent alimony and maintenance…………………..

38. Custody of Children……………………………………………

5. The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936

40. Permanent alimony and maintenance………………..

41. Payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee ….

6. The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce)
Rules, 1986
3. Service of summons……………………………………………..

Contents

149

NOTIFICATIONS

• List of Protection Officers

1. Women Development Child Welfare and Disabled Welfare Department Appointment of Project Directors of District Women and Child Development Agency ••’••••• as Protection Officers under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005

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My wife along with her parents and brother , played well planned drama, visited to doctor, taken domestic volienc, admitted to hosipital, in discharge note got it written, ran away from place, after 3 months i got notice from court under DV act for maintenance of money, they withdrew huge amout from my joint account, what will happen next, i live in delhi, they live in Nagapur

Ritesh J
July 28, 2011 at 2:49 am

Is there any time frame under which Doestic violence against woman to be file in court

govindamma
February 4, 2011 at 5:48 am

my husband and their famly house arrested me and my son
they live last 1year upto still
they not to call me and join with matrimonial life
they used entire my dowry amount
again blakmail me
please save me my matrimonial life and mi child life